To declare his fact and chivalrie.
He left this life the yere of our God
Thirteene hundryd fourscore and three od.
Here is also a monument erected to the honour of Queen Elizabeth; and the following very concise inscription on the tomb of William Wray.
Here lyeth, wrapt in clay,
The body of William Wray,
I have no more to say.
St. Michael’s lane, in Great Eastcheap, by the above church.
St. Michael’s Queenhithe, situated on the north side of Thames street, in the ward of Queenhithe, opposite to the great wharf and buildings of that name, was about the year 1181, denominated St. Michael de Cornhithe, which may lead us to the origin of the name by which we at present call that wharf, and this church from its situation near it; as the quantities of corn brought thither down the Thames might occasion the original name, and Queenhithe be only a corrupt way of speaking it.
The old church being consumed by the dreadful fire in 1666, the present structure was erected in its room. It consists of a well-proportioned body, enlightened by two series of windows, the first a range of tall arched ones, and over these a range of large porthole windows, above which are cherubims heads, and underneath festoons, that adorn the lower part, and fall between the tops of the under series. The tower is plain but well-proportioned, and is terminated by a spire crowned with a fane in the form of a little ship.